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Exclusive: Former PM warned cabinet ministers over China, Pacific and US hegemony in lead-up to his pointed speech at National Press Club

The Greens adopt a new party position on Palestine and Israel, saying Israel is practising the "crime of apartheid".

Relations between a centrist Labor government feeling its way and an ascendant Greens party have become surprisingly strained of late.

Sydney man Mohammad Hashemi's cousin Majid Kazemi was executed after a "forced confession and sham trial". He says if the Australian government is serious about stopping the Islamic Republic's human rights abuses, it will cut ties with Iran and list their military arm as a terrorist organisation.

While tensions simmer over a spying scandal, Australia’s closest neighbour is determined to establish a $20 billion oil and gas project.

Something rather important has been overlooked in the first anniversary of the election – Anthony Albanese’s takeover of the Labor Party.

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Governor-General David Hurley will meet Indian leader Narendra Modi at Kirribilli ahead of bilateral talks.

Penny Wong has defended the appointment of a bureaucrat who oversaw the rollout of the disastrous robodebt scheme.

Kathryn Campbell appointment made before royal commission evidence went ‘beyond what was envisaged’

The foreign minister says more progress is needed before the prime minister goes to China.

Over the past 12 months, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and his government have put in place many of their key election promises, signed historic defence deals and re-engaged with China, but the year hasn't been without its curve balls either.